Day 16: So Sydney

We walked quite a bit today and saw a lot of Sydney.
The route from the hotel in Wolloomooloo into the main CBD goes through the botanic gardens. It's quite a long route as it follows the coastline of the harbour around a couple of bays.

It was quite surreal to just be walking through this manicured park and then suddenly see the opera house and the harbour bridge just appear.

The weather wasn't quite what we'd presumed it would be either: absolutely heaving it down, vertical rain that meant we were both soaked within about 10 minutes - and nowhere to hide either.

Took some moody shots of the opera house in the rain and then headed right round the Ciruclar Quay where all the ferries come in and onwards to The Rocks, which is where the base of the bridge is. The bridge looks amazing from a distance but is awe-inspiring when you are directly under it - the scale is just mind-blowing.

In the afternoon we met Dan's friend Claire and her beautiful daughter Bella, and she gave us a great tour through Sydney and out around the bays including the posh areas of Sydney where people like Nicole Kidman have a house, Bondi Beach and a cliff top renowned for suicide jumps! Local knowledge you see, always best!

In the evening we went out for a really good thai meal up in Newtown and then met up with some friends of Claires in town and saw a couple of drag shows. All setting the scene for Priscilla on Sunday.

Tomorrow: getting Manly on the water